VOLUME 2(2) • 2010
THE ADOPTION OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT INITIATIVES IN MAINSTREAM NEWS ORGANIZATIONS: COLLABORATIVE NEWS PUBLISHING EXPERIMENTS AND THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE NEWS DISSEMINATION PROCESS
ABSTRACT. We shall focus here on the transnational flow of political information and ideas, the mass-mediated public sphere, and the industrial infrastructure of media production and distribution. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of new structures of television production a..
BOOK REVIEWS: Equality, So Badly Misunderstood
Tibor Machan’s Equality, So Badly Misunderstood is a positive pleasure to read. Short, readable, waffle-free and devastatingly destructive of the radical egalitarian position. It could be subtitled: What’s So Great about Equality? In a relatively brief compass it explores and undermines the intellec..
IDENTITY, SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. This paper aims to analyze and discuss the public articulation of connections on social networks, the logic of social practices, the dynamic nature of identity and privacy, the creation and dissemination of media, and the architecture of information flow. Our paper starts with a review of ..
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK: CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
ABSTRACT. This paper provides a literature review on the gap between rhetoric and reality in equal opportunities for women in organizations, the relationship between stereotypical images of Black women and individual’s perceptions, the advancement of professional women into senior and leadership pos..
DIFFERENCES REGARDING PARENTAL ATTITUDES CONCERNING THE SPOILING OF CHILDREN
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the complex nature of adult child-parent ties, the role of parents’ knowledge in supporting children’s development, and social constraints hindering HIV treatment and care. In the present paper, I focus on effects in shaping child..
EMPATHY AS A SOURCE OF ATTITUDE CHANGE
ABSTRACT. Our findings have considerable implications for understanding the cognitive-affective neuroscience of empathy, the constructs of general empathy and ethnocultural empathy, and the importance of reenactive empathy. These findings highlight the importance of examining the formation of attitu..
PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF ETHNIC IDENTITY
ABSTRACT. Our study supports other analyses which suggest the psychological and physiological processes associated with the experience of racism and oppression, the cumulative impact of the psychological stress and strain of racism, the way racial categories and boundaries are constructed and police..
FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on the establishment of constitutional democracies, the problem of political legitimacy within the context of moral conflict, the operational principles of modern democracy, the legitimacy of deliberative democracy, the institutional forms of democracy, and th..
THE MECHANICS OF IMMIGRANT ETHNIC IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
ABSTRACT. Our paper starts with a review of relevant literature on the economic dimensions of immigrant conflict, the negative consequences of social isolation and ethnic segregation, the dynamics of ethnic capital, the economic dimension of the ethnic enclave, the spatial relationship between the e..
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PSYCHOSOCIAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT. I decided in the early stages of the research that I would try to let the data direct theoretical exploration, and this paper is one outcome of this process (particular attention is given to reviewing recent empirical evidence on the topic). The purpose of this article is to describe the f..
YOUNG PEOPLE, ETHICS, AND THE NEW DIGITAL MEDIA
ABSTRACT. The new digital media are a frontier that is rich with opportunities and risks, particularly for young people. Through digital technologies, young people are participating in a range of activities, including social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading musi..
THE NEOLIBERAL CHALLENGE • WHAT IS NEOLIBERALISM?
ABSTRACT. The term ‘neoliberalism’ has since around 1980 become a quite widely used exhortation in some political and academic debates. Prolific employment of a term does not signify, however, that it is clearly defined. In this article it is suggested that while the concept itself has become an imp..